Don’t Have A Cow: Israel’s Remilk Serves Up Dairy Products Made Without Animals

By Shoshanna Solomon, The Times of Israel December 06, 2020 < 1 minute

Remilk serves up animal-free 'dairy' products. Photo: Remilk website

This article was first published by The Times of Israel and is re-posted with permission.

Israeli startup Remilk hopes to be the first company in the world to bring real dairy milk products to market without needing a single cow in the process.

“Relying on animals to make our food is no longer sustainable,” said Aviv Wolff, who co-founded the startup up last year. “The implications of animal farming are devastating for our planet.” The time has come, he said, for “a new revolutionary invention that will enable the transition to a food system that takes no more than what our planet can give.”

Cows at dairy farm in Israel. Deposit Photos

The technology Wolff and his scientist partner Ori Cohavi have developed produces milk proteins that are “chemically identical” to those present in cow-produced milk and dairy products, explained Wolff in a phone interview. That essentially means they are dairy products with dairy proteins, minus the cows.

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